Antimicrobial peptides are signaling molecules

Trends in Immunology

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 283-284

  Salzet, Michel ^a  

^a UNIV LILLE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; PEPTIDE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; DRUG ACTIVITY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNE SYSTEM; LETTER; LYMPHOCYTE; MAMMAL CELL; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PRECURSOR; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SMALL INTESTINE;

ALPHA-DEFENSINS; ANIMALS; ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDES; DEFENSINS; GUINEA PIGS; HUMANS; IMMUNE SYSTEM; MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE 7; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 0036607940     PISSN: 14714906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1471-4906(02)02236-6     Document Type: Letter

References (20)

1. Innate immunity: From plants to humans
2. Vertebrate innate immunity resembles a mosaic of invertebrate immune responses
3. Dermcidin: A novel human antibiotic peptide secreted by sweat glands
4. Isolation of p-hydroxycinnamaldehyde as an antibacterial substance from the saw fly, Acantholyda parki S
5. Crustacean immunity. Antifungal peptides are generated from the C-terminus of shrimp hemocyanin in response to microbial challenge
6. Presence of chromogranin-derived antimicrobial peptides in plasma during coronary artery bypass surgery and evidence of an immune origin of these peptides
7. Subtilase-like pro-protein convertases: From molecular specificity to therapeutic applications
8. Crosstalk between nervous and immune systems through the animal kingdom: Focus on opioids
9. Defensins of vertebrate animals
10. The multifaceted Paneth cell
11. Post-translational processing of defensins in immature human myeloid cells
12. Intramolecular inhibition of human defensin HNP-1 by its propiece
13. Regulation of intestinal (-defensin activation by the metalloproteinase matrilysin in innate host defense
14. Cathelicidins: A family of endogenous antimicrobial peptides
15. Processing site and gene structure for the murine antimicrobial peptide CRAMP
16. Identification of defensins in human lymphocyte nuclei
17. Inhibition of protein kinase C by defensins, antibiotic peptides from human neutrophils
18. Epidermoid carcinoma-derived antimicrobial peptide (ECAP) inhibits phosphorylation by protein kinases in vitro
19. Antimicrobial effects of α-MSH peptides
20. Redefinition of fundamental postulate of classical endocrinolology